subject: Italian Culinary - The Brilliant Italian Stromboli [print this page] Today lets take a look at the famous Italian Recipe- Stromboli.
The true change between stromboli and calzone is that the former is rolled while the latter is folded. There's not much of a difference in the ingredients. Both generally include cheese (usually mozzarella), meat, and/or vegetables. I propose changing the ingredients each time you cook them. But stromboli usually has tomato sauce inside and calzone has sauce on the side for dipping.
Ingredients (serves 5):
* A couple of tablespoons - extra virgin olive oil
* Two cloves - garlic, minced
* One - large onion, sliced
* 1 - green pepper, diced
* 1 pound - button mushrooms, chopped
* Four - mild Italian sausage, casing removed
* 1 1/2 pounds - mozzarella cheese, grated
Preparation:
Prepare the calzone dough the same manner you make the stomboli dough. In addition prepare the tomato sauce the very same method the stomboli tomato sauce was prepared.
Place the oil into the pan and heat over medium flame and add the garlic. Cook for one minute and then add the onion, green pepper, and mushrooms.
Saute until the mushrooms have lost their water and the mixture starts to brown. Prepare the sausage in a different pan till it starts to brown, breaking up the meat into bits.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Pinch the dough apart into five different but equal dough balls. Roll each ball flat on a lightly floured surface.
Cover every portion of dough with a layer of mozzarella cheese, followed by the sausage and vegetables and divide them evenly.
Wrap again with the rest of the mozzarella cheese and fold each dough sheet over, sealing the ends.
By means of a spatula, transfer the calzones to two lightly oiled baking sheets. Put the two pans in the oven, one on the lower rack and the other on the higher rack. Cook for fifteen minutes and then reverse the baking sheets and cook for an further 20 minutes. Offer with the tomato sauce on the top or on the side for dipping.
Italian Culinary - The Brilliant Italian Stromboli
